The locked-down desktop

[Peter]

> As for auto-login: I agree that it's not exactly difficult to log in,
> but most people I know will just create one account with no password
> and share it with everyone in the household. Worse yet is that the
> account invariably has administrator privileges

What most people don't realise is the fact that there can be only ONE 
auto login account per machine.

That could be implemented as 'kiosk mode' or something similar with 
reasonable timeouts and auto-logouts etc. It is not so hard using 
existing code and scripts.

Peter
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